The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 52
Let us carry the body on the roof of the house and lower it down the chimney of our neighbour the Mussulman."
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, carry, lower down · To what, where: us, body, roof
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 roof | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roof | det |
| 8 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roof | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lower | cc |
| 13 | lower | lower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 carry | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lower | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 lower | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chimney | det |
| 17 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lower | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 neighbour | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 20 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chimney | nmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Mussulman | det |
| 22 | Mussulman | Mussulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 neighbour | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | infinitive | us not said here | the body | the roof of the house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | |||
| 3 | lower down | infinitive | us not said here | body | the chimney of our neighbour obl | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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